Handbrake and BluRay Compliance

[ron spencer]

Hey all,

There is a hockey dad on my son's team that has done some editing of his HD recordings (1920x1080 60i 29.97) and saved them in DNxHD. They look great. He asked me for help encoding this to proper formats. I figure I'd use handbrake, as it has settings for mobile stuff. I noticed that there are no settings for bluray though...some may like a proper disk. Has anybody created a bluray preset for Handbrake?

I looked at: http://www.x264bluray.com/

where they give some x264 settings for bluray compliance.

With handbrake, the audio conversion is easy (LPCM to AC3), as is the burning in of subs if needed (he makes subtitles too). But what about the video?

The page I suggested notes that the following can be used:

1080i29.97 / 1080i30

x264
--bitrate
XXXXX
--preset veryslow --tune film --bluray-compat --vbv-maxrate 40000 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --level 4.1 --keyint 30 --open-gop --slices 4 --tff --colorprim "bt709" --transfer "bt709" --colormatrix "bt709" --sar 1:1 --pass 1 -o out.264
input.file

x264
--bitrate
XXXXX
--preset veryslow --tune film --bluray-compat --vbv-maxrate 40000 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --level
4.1 --keyint 30 --open-gop --slices 4 --tff --colorprim "bt709" --transfer "bt709" --colormatrix "bt709" --sar 1:1 --pass 2 -o out.264
input.file

Is this even possible with handbrake?

thanks

[Kerry56]

As far as I am aware, Handbrake only outputs to MP4 or MKV formats. You can probably make an MKV file with those settings if you work at it, but I use MeGUI for making Blu-ray compatible video, then use something else to put it into Blu-ray format, like tsMuXer, if I don't want a menu.

[ron spencer]

Yes...I was going to make an mkv then dump into tsmuxer....I've never used MeGUI, one can easily make proper output? Not sure I want to buy a commercial encoder when x264 will work fine.

[Kerry56]

MeGUI is free to use, and it uses X264 like most of the rest of the free encoding programs. It is not very simple to use and the interface is annoying, but it will work with the settings you've listed. I normally only use MeGUI when I want raw .h264 video. MeGUI uses AviSynth scripts.

If you are comfortable with Handbrake, you can probably just add the parameters you want in the Advanced tab, x264 encoder options box.